Families & First Responders

The 9/11/01 attacks killed nearly 3,000 individuals on the day itself,
and injured tens of thousands more, due to the toxic effects
of the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Fatalities

The exact number of people killed on the day of the attack
will never be known because the destruction of the Twin Towers
so thoroughly degraded human remains that more than one thousand
apparent victims have yet to be identified.

Other methods of ennumerating the victims are inherently inexact.
One reason is that the attack on New York City
almost certainly killed undocumented aliens.
Estimates for the number of fatalities declined steadily in the
weeks after the attack, and eventually stabilized at around 2,800.

The magnitude of the public health catastrophy has emerged slowly.
Mainstream publications began publishing extensive stories about
fatalities and widespread illness attributable to such exposures in 2006.

Legal Actions

Protests and Vigils

Survivors and exposure victims have organized
of protests and vigils advocating for a number of goals,
including proper burial of the killed,
adequate treatment of the injured,
and release of information relating to the attack
and the government's response.